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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionWestern reaction to Lula’s speech on Ukraine shows the Global South’s power
The US has accused Brazil of siding with Russia, but Lula’s official neutrality has more to do with China
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Published in: openSecurityYemen: under fire, desperate for peace
Can the Yemen peace talks succeed? The dire humanitarian situation demands it but political factionalism and...
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Published in: openSecurityMorocco, UN myopia and the Libyan crisis
It may be understandable that the UN should clutch at any straws to address the miasma in Libya. But Morocco...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen at war
With a humanitarian crisis mounting in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has eased its military pressure—for the moment.
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Published in: openSecurityErdoğan, Syria and the Kurds: be careful what you wish for
A complex political triangulation links the Turkish president with the Syrian imbroglio and the Kurdish question,...
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Published in: openSecurityIran behind the conciliatory veil
Right-wing US and Israeli venom against the outline agreement is one thing; genuine concern about the Islamic...
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Published in: openSecuritySecuritisation not the response to deaths at sea
The European Union has responded to the humanitarian crisis presented by refugee deaths in the Mediterranean—but...
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Published in: openSecurityProhibiting autonomous weapons systems
They have been dubbed ‘killer robots’. Concerted international action is needed to prevent the emergence of weapons...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen: dialogue must replace war
The Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen have failed to stem the Houthi advance. Time for jaw-jaw, not war-war.
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Published in: openSecurityA Gulf in understanding
The outline Iran nuclear deal has highlighted divisions in the region—not just between majority Shia and Sunni...
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Published in: openSecurityIran nuclear deal: keeping hope of peace alive
Conservatives in the US, Israel and Iran itself are all opposed to the outline nuclear accord. So it looks like progress.
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Published in: openSecuritySudan: nodding through a dictator’s re-election
Next week sees elections in Sudan. But there’s one thing wrong—we already know the outcome.
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Published in: openSecurityIran celebrates historic nuclear deal—all eyes now on supreme leader
A quarter-century on from the 'Islamic' revolution, Iran's beleaguered economy and its reformist leader desperately...
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Published in: openSecurityAndargachew Tsige: Ethiopian brutality, British apathy
A UK citizen who was a refugee from the one-party state that is Ethiopia has been spirited back into its clutches....
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Published in: openSecurityLibya: the pressing need for dialogue
The western intervention in Libya in 2011 failed to recognise the complex warp and weft of its pre-democratic tribal...
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Published in: openSecurityAn irresistible force? Arab citizens of Israel after the elections
Binyamin Netanyahu may have returned to power by disowning the two-state solution and scaremongering about Arab...
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Published in: openSecurityArms and the men: Sweden’s revoked Saudi arms deal
From the outside, the Swedish snub to the Saudi royals looks like a big triumph for women’s rights over commercial...
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Published in: openSecurityIndonesia regresses with the use of the death penalty
The prospect of execution of two Australians in Indonesia has caught international media attention, amid Australian...
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Published in: openSecurityWith Ghani in Kabul, will relations with Pakistan change?
There are signs that the long-fraught relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan could improve, following the...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey and Armenia: genocide? what genocide?
April 1915 saw the start of the genocide against Armenians and other minorities in the former Ottoman Empire....